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[upbeat music] In this edition of Attitudes, we're going to explore British attitudes on masculinity, the roles, the behaviors, the attributes that are associated with maleness.

What do the people of Britain really think about what it means to be a bloke? [upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Attitudes with me, Mark Easton, brought to you by the National Centre for Social Research.

NatCen has been tracking British attitudes for more than 50 years, and today, the starting point for our discussion is some recent NatCen data trying to understand how people relate to gender identities.

In this program, focusing on masculinity.

My resident number cruncher for this episode of Attitudes is Curtis Jessop, who is the director of Attitudinal Surveys at NatCen.

Hi, Curtis.

Hi.

But we also know the term has, um, a, a, a, a darker connotation, which is about aggression, recklessness, insensitivity, controlling behavior.

Has the share, sharing of household labor in the UK's eleven point three million heterosexual couples' households changed in the last few decades? Attitudes have certainly changed.

According to the National Center for Social Research, NCSR, among people in two-person ho- heterosexual households, agreements with the idea that men should earn money and women should look after the home dropped from forty-eight percent in 1980 to seventy-nine percent in 2022.

In 2012, thirty-one percent felt mothers should stay in home with preschoolers.

Eighteen percent now think this.

But that comes against a backdrop of intense argument about whether a university education is worth the money.

So what do the people of Britain really think about university? Hello and welcome to Attitudes with me, Mark Easton, brought to you by the National Centre for Social Research, home of the British Social Attitude Survey, which has been tracking opinions for more than 40 years.

And today, the starting point for our discussion is a piece of data on what British people think about university.

My resident number cruncher for this episode of Attitudes is Alex Sculls, Natsen Research Director.

My name's Mark Easton and I'm hosting a new podcast from the National Centre for Social Research called Attitudes.

Each edition takes one topic and looks at what the science tells us about what British people really think.

AI, masculinity, university, cannabis, what do the numbers tell us? What do we really think?